About Assessment Bot
Assessment bot is to perform portfolio and inventory analysis of the current state and capabilities of the mainframe applications build over a decade in various programming languages such as COBOL, PL/I, Natural, Assembler and others. Modernization architects looking for their mainframe insights like application portfolio, active and inactive components, baseline inventory, application dependencies, interfaces, data flows, interaction with upstream and downstream systems and other application characteristics can be generated through assessment bot. Assessment Bot will analyse the mainframe source code and provide the insights like modernization strategy, application readiness, ROI, target architecture and lot more in less than a week. Here we list purpose of each area that can help determine the target state for each application. The following key areas are analysed through assessment bot ;
Business Criticality
The outcome of business area addresses
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How each application support the business?
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What are the financial impact for each application?
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Determine application stability (Incident tickets during last 1 year)
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Understand application volatility (Change request during last 1 year)
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What is the pending business requirements for each application to be implemented in next 6 , 12 and 24 months
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Any issues exist with the business uptime?
Technical Analysis
Identify technical nature of each application like​
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What programming languages and technologies were used ?
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How many inbound/outbound integrations exist?
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MIPS utilized by each program, job or online transaction for a week or month
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List of components, Lines of code and dependencies across applications
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How much data does the application handle?
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What are the performance SLAs and is there an existing performance issues?
Target Approach and Spend
Identify application readiness for modernization treatments like
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What R-type is applicable for each application?
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Priortize and grouping of application for modernization waves based on business importance and technical fitness
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Modernization approach with implementation roadmap
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Calculate the target spend vs the current spend and derive ROI for the next 5 years
Deliverables
Business
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# of application distributed across business functions
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# of application components(COBOL, JCL etc.) distributed across business functions and applications
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KLOC(Thousands of Lines of code) distributed across business functions and applications
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Number of incidents and change requests distributed across business and applications
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Future projects distributed across business and applications
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Business score highlighting the business value based on all the business factors
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Technical
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CPU utilization distributed across business functions or applications
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Inventory report indicating components distributed across tech stack like COBOL, JCL, CICS etc.
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Complexity Metrics covering Size Complexity, Cyclomatic Complexity and Maintainability
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CRUD report and analysis report for tech stack like Assembler, CICS, IMS/IDMS etc.
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Identification of unsupported language type for target state
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Application dependency matrix for each application rolled up to business functions
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Technical score highlight technical value based on all the above factors and lot more....
R-Type
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Comparison of business score and technical score and derive R-Type for each application
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Suggested target state architecture for each R-Type and flexibility to customize to match your existing cloud or per preference
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Estimates for each R-Type along with implementation roadmap
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Return on Invest (ROI) projection for next 5 years for the suggested R-Type
Refactor/Replatform/Replace/Rehost
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# of applications selected for each R-Type
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Automated or manual estimates for each recommended R-Type
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High level project plan detailing reverse engineering and forward engineering activities
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Assumptions and dependencies to execute each R-Type projects
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Recommendation on tools/software and vendors can be used for each R-Type
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Target architecture features, indicative pricing and benefits
Assessment Bot Report
Assessment report comprised of following outcomes. The report can be delivered in PDF format and PowerBI dashboards can be provided on demand basis.
Assessment BOT Limits & Pricing
Languages Supported
COBOL, CICS, BMS, JCL, DB2 SQL, PL/I, IMS/IDMS DC, Natural, Assembler*
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Data supported
DB2 for z/OS, IMS/IDMS DB, ADABAS, VSAM, Seq. files etc.
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*Limited functions and features for the programming languages
Assessment Bot is build to support and educate mainframe modernization architect to accelerate their modernization journey. Please continue to fill the form below and upload the source code. We will estimate the volume and notify the pricing through email to proceed with assessment. For any queries, please reach out to marketing@mainframebots.com
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Our Assessment Bots can analyse your source code in short period and provide the most valued inputs to ease your decision on future of your legacy applications. To start the assessment, please submit the below form and upload your source code. You will receive the assessment report in less than 5 days in fraction of the cost.